220 LXXTII. JASMINES. 



sweet-scented [lowers and pinnate leaves ; occui'S in several parts of the 

 Natal colony. The only otlier known species is Indian. 



4. MENODORA, H. B. K. 



Calyx bell-shaped, deeply 5-10- or many-cleft, with narrow 

 lobes. Corolla shortly funnel-shaped, with a teretfe^^^ube, 

 mostly hairy within ; limb 5-parted, imbricate in bud. 'ijta- 

 mens 2, exserted. Style filiform ; stigma subcapitate ; ovary 

 2-lobed ; ovules 2-4 in each cell. Capsule didymous, carti- 

 laginous, each carpel opening by a transverse slit. — DC. Prod. 

 viii. p. 316 (^including Bolivaria, p. 315) ; Hook. Ic. Plant, 

 t. 5SG. 



Underslirubs, natives of Sonth America and Mexico, as well as of the 

 Northern and Nortli- Eastern frontiers of the Cape colony. — We have 2 

 species : M. Africana, Hook., a much-branched, diffuse plant, with multi- 

 fid leaves ; and 31. jtincea, Harv. (n. sp.), an erect, nearly leafless, virgate 

 plant, fiowenng at the ends of the branches. 



Order LXXIV. SALVADOEACE^ ? 

 1. MONETIA, L'Her. 



Flowers dioecious. — Male : Calyx shortly 4-5-cleft, valvate 

 in bud. Petals 4-5, hypogjmous, linear-lanceolate, longer than 

 the calyx, valvate in bud. Stamens 4-5, alternate with the 

 petals, inserted into the margin of a fleshy, hypogynous disk ; 

 filaments subulate ; anthers versatile, 2-celled. — Female : 

 Calyx and corolla as in the male. Stamens abortive. Ovary 

 free, 2-celled ; ovules solitary, erect or ascending ; stigma 

 sessile, globose. Berry 1-2-seeded. Seeds exalbuminous, 

 with a green embrvo and fleshy, strongly cordate cotyledons. 

 —Fl. Cap. i. p. 474. 



M. harlerioides, L'Her., the only species, occurs in Uitenhage. It 

 is a glabrous shrub, with opposite branches and twigs. Leaves opposite, 

 petioled, with axillary, solitary or 2-nate spines. Flowers small and green- 

 ish, in dense axillary tufts. — Its true place in the system is extremely 

 doubtfiJ. I place it here at the suggestion of Dr. Hooker. 



Order LXXV. MYRSINE^. 



Flowers bisexual or polygamous, small. Calyx 4-6-toothed 

 or cleft, free or half-adnate to the ovary. Corolla mostly 

 monopetalous, regular, 4-6-lobed or parted, rarely of 4-5 pe- 

 tals ; lobes mostly twisted to the left in bud. Stamens as 

 many as the lobes of corolla and opposite them, fertile (some- 

 times alternating with as many petaloid staminodia). Ovary 



